B Family | Des Moines, Iowa Family Photographer
Few favorites from a recent session with one of our past wedding couples the B family! Thanks for having me!
W Family | Des Moines, Iowa Family Photographer
I had a great session with the W family last week. How cute are they?!
The World Food Prize Foundation Borlaug-Ruan International Interns | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographers
We had the privilege of photographing the 24 high school students that The World Food Prize Foundation will send abroad for the Borlaug-Ruan International Internship program at the renowned international research centers and NGOs this summer. The students are from Iowa and twelve other states and will delve into issues related to global hunger and […]
Mandy + Harrison 04.28.2018 | Decades Event Center Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers ZTS Photo
Mandy and Harrison were married at the new Decades Event Center in Des Moines. What a fun new vintage wedding venue just a few minuets West of Downtown with a beyond amazing staff! Mandy and the gals started their morning at One Eighty Salon for hair and makeup in Indianola. Post hair and makeup we […]
M+Z Maternity Session | Des Moines, Iowa Maternity Photos | Des Moines, Iowa Maternity Photographer
We lucked out with just the PERFECT night for photos! Despite the cold temperatures these two just rocked their maternity session! We even lucked out with the most epic sunset for some silhouettes to end the night. If you are looking to document your pregnancy and want some amazing maternity photos to remember your journey to […]
Northwestern Mutual Commercial Photography | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer
I had the pleasure of capturing a local Des Moines Northwestern Mutual office recently for group photos of the entire office and headshots of each individual for marketing images. We lucked out with the weather and it ended up being just the perfect sunny morning for photos. Thankful for clients that also are interested in […]
H Family | Des Moines, Iowa Family Photographer
Love when our past wedding clients have babies! So fun to meet this little man and I had a great time capturing such a fun and joyful time for your little family!
P Family | Des Moines Family Photographer | Fall Family Sessions Des Moines, Iowa
This family session was a huge reminder how important photos are to families. Their poor fur baby sadly passed less than a week after this photoshoot. I am SO thankful as a fur mom myself to have been able to capture some images with their newest addition and their last few days with their fur […]
Des Moines, Iowa Family Photographer | The O Family
Thankful for repeat clients and amazing friends! Year 4 for this adorable family and their fur kids. This fall was just a whirlwind of weddings, commercial shoots, family photos, engagements and event photography for us. So many great sessions to blog! Thanks everyone for all the support and what a great family session this was!
Des Moines Headshots Photographer | On Location Headshots Des Moines
We have been so lucky to have several wonderful banks and professional institutions to be their primary contact in 2017 for commercial images. What a great headshot session in West Des Moines last week! Feel free to reach out if you are in need of some updated marketing images be it office photos, product photography, […]
The Forkners | Sunset Des Moines Wedding Portrait Session | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers
We had such an amazing wedding portrait session with these two at sunset a few days ago. Wedding portraits are so incredibly important so it was great to be able to capture some special ones for these two. They literally let us pick any spot we wanted and were so much fun to work with! […]
M Family | Fall Des Moines Family Photos | Family Photographer Des Moines, Iowa
I had such a great time catching up with this sweet family for some fall fun! Little Nola is the cutest 2 year old around, she’s just so busy but it was a delight to have a more candid family session. She could literally be a track star! Thanks so much for having me capture […]
Benskin Wedding July 22, 2017 | Red Acre Barn | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
Taylor and Billy had the most beautiful Iowa barn wedding at Red Acre Barn just a few minuets south of Des Moines. The night even ended with quite the bang! They went all out on florals with the amazing Shelly Sarver Designs, as always her arrangements blow us away! Despite the 93 degree day they […]
H Family | Des Moines Family Photographer | Pregnancy Announcement Photographer
Always a great time catching up with old high school friends! I had the best time with these two and their little bulldog Drake taking family (and pregnancy announcement!) photos a few weeks ago. Thanks for having me and so excited for your next adventure with twins in a few short months! Drake is going […]
Des Moines Headshot Photographer | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer
So many fun mini commercial shoots lately! If you are in need of some fresh marketing images in the Des Moines, Iowa area be it for social media or advertising feel free to reach out. I’d love to set up a time to pop out for some professional relaxed head shots!
Garman Partners | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer | Des Moines Professional Headshots
I had a wonderful little commercial photo-shoot today in Des Moines with Garman Partners. If you are in need of fresh fun images for your companies marketing and social media needs in the Des Moines, Iowa area feel free to reach out. We would love to chat about photographing new headshots for your employees, group shots […]
J + A Des Moines Proposal | RoCA | Des Moines, Iowa Proposal Photographer
I had the pleasure of photographing the most adorable proposal at RoCA in downtown Des Moines this last Saturday. Oh my gosh these two are so adorable together! Joshua arranged for all their closest friends to arrive for a dinner and night out, and proposed the second they walked in the door to applause, screams […]
Des Moines Headshot Photographer | Iowa Commercial Photographer
Few favorites from a commercial headshot session last week in East Village. How fun! If you are in need of some new fresh corporate images feel free to reach out, we would love to help!
W Family | Des Moines, Iowa Fall Family Photographer | Des Moines Kid Photographer
I had a great time catching up with one of our past wedding couples earlier this week and their adorable little twins. How cute are they! Thanks for having me capture this busy time in your lives, what a beautiful family!
Steckelberg Wedding October 8, 2016 | Honey Creek Resort Wedding | Des Moines Wedding Photographer
Last Saturday we headed down to the beautiful Honey Creek Resort on Lake Rathbun, Iowa for Piper and Jared’s big day. As always Honey Creek is on point with amazing service and friendly smiles. We love working there and highly suggest it to all brides looking for a beautiful location that allows guests to have […]
Nelsen Wedding October 1st 2016 | West Des Moines Marriott Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
Kaitlyn & Darrell are so much fun! You can truly tell from spending the day with them how much they care about each other. All the laughter and love is apparently in the photos! They were married at the gorgeous West Des Moines Marriott as well as had their reception there. They let Tanner and […]
Ashley + Aaron Engaged | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
We ended up rescheduling 3 times due to icky weather and so excited we did! Sunday was the perfect night for fall engagement photos. That fall sunshine is everything! I even found a new location downtown with a great view of the Des Moines skyline for sunset. What a great engagement session with these two […]
H Family | Des Moines Family Photographer | Fall Family Session
I had the most adorable family session earlier this week with the H family! Little miss 11 month old Ophelia has the best personality. She is beyond adorable! Thanks for letting me capture your memories, I had a blast with you all! (Also note it was 90+ degrees at the end of Sept in Iowa, so they […]
Des Moines, Iowa Landscapes
Out exploring last weekend after a fun shoot. We have a few commercial clients that lease/buy images from us around Iowa so always great to add a few new ones to our portfolio! And as always you can buy your own (I prefer metal prints of these bad boys!) on our print site here. They […]
Ben + Lucy September Proposal | Des Moines Iowa Proposal Photographer
Saturday I had the pleasure of shooting this amazing proposal for Ben & Lucy in downtown Des Moines. All the feels on this one! So sweet! All the onlookers cheered for them when he got down on one knee. She cried happy tears, they shared lots of laughs and hugs. You can tell they are just […]
Herring Wedding 8.27.16 | Holiday Inn West Des Moines | Des Moines Wedding Photographer
What a beautiful August day for a wedding! I was so excited when Morgan and Matt told us about the vintage fire truck for portraits. I mean how cool is that! Matt is a volunteer firefighter for the City of West Des Moines. Apparently someone donated the beautiful vintage fire truck for firefighters to use […]
Reed Wedding August 20, 2016 | Diamond Oak Event Center Barn Wedding | Clear Lake, Iowa
Nic and Breanne had the most perfect wedding day. Rainbow and all! You know it’s an amazing wedding when you can’t even pick just one favorite image from the day. We were terrified it would rain all day. For August it barely reached 70 degrees (phew!) but Diamond Oak Events Center is a DREAM! Seriously […]
A Fitness Photoshoot | Des Moines Photographer
I had the most fun fitness photo-shoot earlier this week here in Des Moines. Love shooting things out of the norm and this mom of THREE has poured in so much hard work. A big thanks to the Anytime Fitness Downtown on MLK for allowing us to use their amazing rustic gym space. If you […]
ZTS News! | June 2016
After one of our fab engagement sessions last week we stopped by downtown Des Moines on the way home for a quick test of our new (toy) equipment…a DJI Phantom drone! (And YES before you yell at us or lecture us it’s already been registered with the FAA…promise!) We can’t wait to start taking a […]
Central Bank Headshots | Des Moines Commercial Photographer
We had another great shoot yesterday with one of our ongoing commercial photography clients Central Bank (check out our awesome landscape images on their site also!). Thanks so much for having us out! And if you are in need of some new fresh headshot images or social media marketing images in Des Moines let us know, […]
Visionary Des Moines | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer | Des Moines Headshots
I had a great group shot recently with Visionary here in Des Moines as well as some updated commercial head-shots for a few of the employees. If you are in need of a new responsive web design or social media marketing help, they are amazing! Feel free to check them out here. They are located […]
C Backyard Family Brother Session | Des Moines Family Photographer
I had a great backyard photo-shoot in Ankeny with these two adorable brothers last week. You just can’t beat a little bubble blowing, trampoline bouncing and endless smiles. Thanks for having me I’m not sure who had more fun…the boys or I! Ha!
Katie & Dustin Married | Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Course Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
Katie and Dustin had THE PERFECT wedding day. The weather was just…beyond! Everything just absolutely cooperated for them. We were back at the wonderful Tournament Club of Iowa golf course for their day, this time thankfully without a monsoon all day. SO much fun to get out and explore all the Spring growth on the […]
Thomas Wedding April 30th 2016|Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Course Wedding | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
Lucy & Nathan’s big day wins the award for rainiest wedding we’ve ever shot in the past 8 years! It literally rained the entire Saturday, which they say is good luck…but not always so much for photos, ha! They still made the best of it and braved the rain THREE times with us for quick portraits […]
Justin & Laura Engaged | Iowa Farm Engagement | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
Could these two be more adorable?! Tanner and I had a blast returning to the farm for a wonderful engagement session for Laura and Justin last weekend. We are so stoked for their wedding this Sept and I couldn’t even begin to pick what to blog. I love them all. You two knocked these out […]
Des Moines Commercial Headshots | Des Moines Photographer
We had another great commercial shoot today in Des Moines for a local bank. Thanks so much for the opportunity to photograph new head shots for a few employees. As always if you are in need of new marketing or social media photos here in the Des Moines area feel free to contact us, we […]
AO Wealth Advisory | Des Moines Commercial Photographer
I had a wonderful time photographing for Adam Obrecht and team of AO Wealth Advisory in Urbandale recently. They have a new beautiful location at 2570 106th Street Suite A in Urbandale, IA. Thanks so much for being wonderful supporters of ZTS over the years, we truly appreciate it. Always wonderful to get e-mails from past clients needing updated […]
Avery-Bailey Wedding | Clear Lake Cabin Wedding | Lady of The Lake Wedding
When I look back on this wedding day I can’t help but smile. What a fantastic and fun day to shoot! It was picture perfect for a wedding on Clear Lake. We started out at Hair & Co and then headed to the coolest house a few miles away for getting ready photos. The owners not […]
France Wedding | Hope Church, Hessen Haus & Events Center West | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding
Trisha and Brendan were seriously just a blast to work with! I mean how do you even begin to describe this day full of smiles, laughter and German beer! They were even up for snapping photos in the pouring rain with us at the reception! You really can’t beat that! We kicked off the morning with hair and […]
L Portraits | Des Moines, Iowa Portrait Photographer
I had a wonderful holiday portrait session last week. We had a blast exploring the elaborately decorated East Village in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. It was so fun to explore and I just love how they decorate this area up for the holiday season each year. If you haven’t been down to EV lately, do […]
O Family Mini Session | Des Moines, Iowa Family Photographer
Just a few favorites from a mini session with the O family for the annual holiday card. Look how cooperative (and adorable!) Sadie the golden retriever is. She couldn’t get any better at posing if she tried! Swing on by and check out RAGOM the Golden Retriever rescue this awesome family fosters for. Lots of beautiful golden’s of […]